What many find odd about this admission is that it differs strongly with what the company proclaimed four years ago.

“Generally, we remain neutral as to the content because our general council and CEO like to say that we are the free speech wing of the free speech party,” Tony Wang, general manager of Twitter in the U.K., told The Guardian at the time.

Granted, much has changed since 2012, especially in early 2016, when Twitter rolled out abuse filters “to help improve Twitter’s response to harassment on its site,” as reported by The Washington Post.

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This despite the account having been used to “promote violence, including publishing a 2015 call for violent jihad and ‘martyrdom,'” and to spread “anti-Israel, anti-Jewish, and anti-Western hatred online,” Kyle Shideler of the Threat Information Office at the Center for Security Policy wrote in a piece for The Hill.

This makes the Brotherhood seem like a legitimate group & provides cover to spread their radical version of Islam https://t.co/wrEVBEvcYX